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Voc.ArdwinUS
Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Westward Expansion | Manifest Destiny, Railroad Growth - Industrialism |
| Pendleton Act | After Garfields Assassination begins Civil Service Commission tries to end Spoils System |
| Robber Barron | People accused of swindling investors/ tax payers- bribing government officials & cheating on their contracts & debts |
| Populism | Movement to increase farmers political power |
| Social Darwinism | Herbert Spencer theory of evolution to human society |
| Homestead Act | $10 registration, and individual could file to own land up to 160 acres must live on it and work it for 5 years |
| Realism | attempted to portray people realistically In art & literature |
| Political Machine | An informal political group designed to gain & keep power |
| Party Boss | Person who ran the political machine |
| Graft | Getting money through dishonest fraud- political machines & party bosses - grew rich through graft |
| Tammany Hall | A New York political machine |
| Tenements | Crowded multi-family apartments |
| Nativism | The preference for native-born |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 law barred Chinese Immigrants |
| Angel Island | Like Ellis Island but for Asian or Pacific citizens |
| AFL | American Federation of Labor. 1st leader Samuel Gompus. |
| Open/Closed Shop | Open- Companies do not require union membership Closed- Companies only have union members. |
| Blacklist | A list of trouble makers |
| Hay market Riot | Wanted 8 hr. day. Strikes took place in many cities |
| Pullman Strike | economic hard times called eh Pullman train company to slash wages |
| Knights of Labor | New labor organization |
| Lockout | To stop workers from joining a union |
| Arbitration | Impartial 3rd party helps workers and management reach agreement |
| Holding Company | Instead produce items, it owns stocks of those companies |
| Time Zones | 4 regions where time is the same |
| Vertical Integration | Owns all of the different components that an industry needs. |
| Horizontal Integration | Combining several companies engaged in same businesses |
| Saloon | Served as early political centers |
| Poll Tax | to vote you had to play $2.00 |
| Assimilate | to make people be American |
| Credit Mobilizer Scandal | it was a construction company that signed contracts with selves |
| Laissez Faire | economic policy of govt. not interfering |
| Entrepreneurs | people who risk their capital |
| Atlanta Compromise | Booker T Washington- where he asked black to focus on education |
| A. Graham Bell | invented phone for communication |
| Thomas Edison | light bulb- menlo park lab |
| Jack Riis | muckraker- abject poverty- wrote "how other 1/2 lives" |
| Herbert Spencer | social darwinism- "on the origin of species by means of Natural Selection" |
| Jane Adams | hull house- a settlement house |
| Mark Twain | said "Gilded Age" |
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